Growing Adverse Childhood Experiences are traumatic events in a child’s life. This includes drugs, physical and verbal abuse, as well as growing up with a family member who has mental health issues. Toxic stress from these problems can cause mental disorders as well as other health problems. Adverstys like poverty, racism, and violence can have tremendous effects later in a child’s life. Poverty will limit a child’s resources and make it difficult for a child to succeed in school. Racism in a child’s life is very dangerous it causes hate for no reason. One child will spread hate like a disease. Violence will cause a child to grow up scared or extreme aggressive which neither is good in the long run. ACEs would affect literacy by children not being able to write and read properly. Also they may not want to go through the struggle of learning to read and write because their life is a struggle.
